The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is the common entrance examination for the National Law Universities of India. It is an online objective test conducted for admission to law universities, who conduct it on a rotating basis. It is a single level test and selection is based on rank-preference criteria of the candidates. Presently following law schools participate in CLAT.

The CLAT exam opens the gateways to 19 Law Universities in India for law aspirants seeking admissions to various Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes.

Candidates who are appearing in the qualifying examination in March/April, 2018 are also eligible to appear in CLAT-2018 online examination. However, they shall be required to produce an evidence of their passing the qualifying examination at the time of admission, failing which they shall lose their right to be considered for admission.

The result of the qualifying examination (i.e., 10+2) shall be submitted by the candidate at the time of admission failing which the candidate shall be ineligible for admission to the Course.

The candidate must have passed/appeared in the final semester/final year examination of the qualifying examination on the date of his/her admission.

In case of candidates who have appeared in the qualifying examination, he/she may submit his/her final result of qualifying examination within the time frame prescribed by the respective University/Institute. Till then such candidates may be given provisional admission.

In case of equal marks, the break of tie shall be by procedure and order as under: